A lineal measure in Great Britain and the United States, being the twelfth part of a foot, and equal to the length of three barley corns.

Proverbially, a small quantity or degree; as, to die by inches, to gain ground by inches.

A precise point of time. Beldame, I think, we watch’d you at an inch.

é. To drive by inches or small degrees.

To deal out by inches; to give sparingly.

To advance or retire by small degrees. Inched, is added to words of number; as four-inched. But in American the common practice is to add only inch; as a seven-inch cable.